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xué Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xué | xue2
English translation
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology

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About xué

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Number of strokes

16

Traditional form

xué

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

A building  where children  study

Etymology of xué

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

⿳?冖子

Explanation

Simplified form of xué . Originally composed of the numbers five () and six ( liù ), representing study of arithmetic. Later two hands ( yòu ) were added on the left and right side of the character, possibly depicting counting with fingers or hands-on teaching. F

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Words with xué

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
学校 xuéxiào school學校
xué to learn xué
学生 xuésheng student學生
大学 Dà xué university大學
学习 xuéxí to learn學習
科学 kēxué science科學
同学 tóngxué classmate同學
学会 xué huì to learn學會
教学 jiào xué to teach教學
学院 xué yuàn college學院
上学 shàng xué to go to school上學
数学 shùxué mathematics數學
医学 yī xué medicine醫學
科学家 kē xué jiā scientist科學家
化学 huàxué chemistry化學
小学 xiǎo xué elementary school小學
大学生 dà xué shēng university student大學生
文学 wénxué literature文學
中学 zhōng xué middle school中學
学者 xué zhě scholar學者
哲学 zhéxué philosophy哲學
学术 xuéshù learning學術
学期 xuéqī term學期
放学 fàng xué to dismiss students at the end of the school day放學
学位 xuéwèi academic degree學位

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